Catholic Home Missions

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Mission

The bishops' Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions is a grant-making agency. It offers financial support to missionary activities that strengthen the Catholic Church in the United States, and in its territories and former territories. Through its annual fundraising campaign, the Catholic Home Missions Appeal, Catholic Home Missions educates American Catholics about mission needs and invites them to assist fellow Catholics in the practice of the faith.

Learn About Home Missions

Visit our new online mapto see a full list of the 2014 home missions dioceses and view grant amounts, areas of need, populations, and more details.

On the weekend of April 26-27, parishes across the U.S. took up the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. This year, the collection will fund $8.45 million in grants to needy dioceses, including Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi. Read more in thepress release.

Funded Groups/Programs

The Appeal primarily supports home mission dioceses, that is, those dioceses in the United States that are unable to offer their people the basic pastoral ministries of word, worship, and service without outside help. It may also give grants to other dioceses in the U.S. for particular projects, and to organizations and religious communities engaged in missionary work.

The Subcommittee funds a wide range of pastoral services. However, it principally focuses on (1) evangelization activities, (2) religious education, (3) ministry training for priests, deacons, religious sisters and brothers, and laypeople; (4) support of poor parishes across the country.

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